GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCaicosGF114
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 July 2013 (12 years ago)24 September 2011 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores160336
Core clock speed875 MHz779 MHz
Number of transistors370 million1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt160 Watt
Texture fill rate7.00043.62
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPS1.046 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs856
L1 Cache16 KB448 KB
L2 Cache128 KB512 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm210 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1280 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1002 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s128.3 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2013 24 September 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1280 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 160 Watt

HD 8490 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, and 357.1% lower power consumption.

GTX 460 v2 ES, on the other hand, has a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8490 OEM and GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES. We've got no test results to judge.

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